John 19

19 1Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
2And the
soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and arrayed him
in a purple garment;
3and they came unto him, and said, Hail, King of the
Jews! and they struck him with their hands.
4And Pilate went out again,
and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him out to you, that ye may know that I
find no crime in him.
5Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of
thorns and the purple garment. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold,
the man!
6When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they
cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him! Pilate saith
unto them, Take him yourselves, and crucify him: for I find no crime in him.
7The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by that law he ought to die,
because he made himself the Son of God.
8When Pilate therefore heard this
saying, he was the more afraid;
9and he entered into the Praetorium
again, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
10Pilate therefore saith unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? Knowest
thou not that I have power to release thee, and have power to crucify thee?
11Jesus answered him, Thou wouldest have no power against me, except it
were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath
greater sin.
12Upon this Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried
out, saying, If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar's friend: every
one that maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
13When Pilate
therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the
judgment-seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
14Now it was the Preparation of the passover: it was about the sixth
hour. And he saith unto the Jews, Behold, your King!
15They therefore
cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him! Pilate
saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We
have no king but Caesar.
16Then therefore he delivered him unto them to
be crucified.
17They took Jesus therefore: and he went out, bearing the
cross for himself, unto the place called The place of a skull, which is
called in Hebrew, Golgotha:
18where they crucified him, and with him two
others, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
19And Pilate wrote a
title also, and put it on the cross. And there was written, JESUS OF
NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
20This title therefore read many of the
Jews, for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city; and it
was written in Hebrew, and in Latin, and in Greek.
21The
chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, Write not, The King of
the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
22Pilate answered,
What I have written I have written.
23The soldiers therefore, when they
had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier
a part; and also the coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top
throughout.
24They said therefore one to another, Let us not rend it, but
cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled,
which saith,

They parted my garments among them,

And upon my vesture did they cast lots.

25These things therefore the soldiers did. But there were standing by the
cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of
Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and
the disciple standing by whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman,
behold thy son!
27Then saith he to the disciple, Behold, thy mother! And
from that hour the disciple took her unto his own home.
28After
this Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished, that the scripture
might be accomplished, saith, I thirst.
29There was set there a vessel
full of vinegar: so they put a sponge full of the vinegar upon hyssop, and
brought it to his mouth.
30When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar,
he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
31The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies
should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that sabbath
was a high day), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and
that they might be taken away.
32The soldiers therefore came, and
brake the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him:
33but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they
brake not his legs:
34howbeit one of the soldiers with a spear pierced
his side, and straightway there came out blood and water.
35And he that
hath seen hath borne witness, and his witness is true: and he knoweth that he
saith true, that ye also may believe.
36For these things came to pass,
that the scripture might be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
37And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they
pierced.
38And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple
of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might
take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came
therefore, and took away his body.
39And there came also Nicodemus, he
who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes,
about a hundred pounds.
40So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in
linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
41Now
in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a
new tomb wherein was never man yet laid.
42There then because of the
Jews' Preparation (for the tomb was nigh at hand) they laid Jesus.